Biography Harpy

Harpy (Greek ArpuaV, Lat. Rapae) – the goddess of the vortex. In the Iliad is the harpy Gout (swift-) who gave birth from Zephyr Achilles' horses, Xanthos and Baliosa. In the Odyssey, attributed harpy kidnapping, missing persons. Hesiod calls them the cruise, the fair-goddesses, by name Ajello and Okipeta. Later their number increased and they began to be presented winged beasts, birds with a girlish face. Such are they in the story of the Argonauts, where the torture of blind Thracian king Finet, abducting and defiling his food; Argonauts Z and Kalais, the winged sons of Boreas, pursue them until Strofadov, where they were later finds Aeneas.